Social EngineeringPhishingStolen CredentialsMulti-Stage ChainCustomer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTMediumContained
HCI Group
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Full breach record for HCI Group →HCI LLC reported a data security incident discovered on September 2, 2020. An unauthorized individual accessed employee email accounts sometime prior to June 2020, likely via phishing. The incident involved the exposure of names and Social Security numbers of current and former employees. HCI engaged forensic investigators and offered 12 months of identity monitoring services.
California clockDiscovered Sep 2, 2020 → Notified Jun 8, 2021279d ✗ CA 60-day late40 weeks discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-541698
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Jun 8, 2021
- Raw hash
- 1bc076033aa6943797e49682c9eab9c435279fd2f840b8dd000cf2bfc4ac59e5
Reporting entity
- Name
- HCI Collegenorm: hci college
- Domain
- hci.edu
Victim entity
- Name
- HCI Groupnorm: hci group
- Domain
- hcigroup.com
Incident
- Discovered
- Sep 2, 2020
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Jun 8, 2021
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENT
- Attack vector
- Phishing
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Initial access
- phishing_link
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 40 weeks(279 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day late · 279d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Sep 2, 2020→ Notified: Jun 8, 2021279d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day late
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.